Re: buggy ESS maestro 2E driver

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Tue, 22 Jul 2003 18:22:56 +0200 (CEST),
Djamel Ouerdane wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I know this one is a known bug, as far as I could see from ealier messages
> but I thought I would repeat it once more: the driver snd-es1968
> handling the sound card ESS Maestro 2E that can be found in many laptops,
> is buggy, you cannot record anything but garbage.
> 
> Ok, nothing new here but nowadays, sound utilities, programs, etc, use
> ALSA and JACk quite a lot due to high quality and low latency
> requirements. And that's great news for the linux community that
> open-source projects can compete with professional and often non-free 
> audio software. I just want to say here that since ALSA is getting close 
> to version 1.0, which means a non development release, it is now urgent to 
> get at least basic things to work, like simple sound capture (the OSS free 
> driver works fine but many applications now require ALSA and JACK).
> 
> As an end user, I logically expect that such an ambitious project can deal
> with such a wide spread sound card. I have therefore three options:
> either I give up ALSA and all great stuff I could benefit from, 
> or I buy a new soundcard (but I don't have any money to spend in it),
> or finally, you fix the bug, which is by far the best option :) I guess 
> I'm not the only frustrated user in the place, so please, remove the bug 
> ASAP.

i checked the code and found some bugs there.
please try the latest alsa-driver/alsa-kernel _and_ alsa-lib cvs
version.

i'm not sure whether jack can run well on this hardware, although it
shouldn't cause lock up any more.


Takashi


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